"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free."
"But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
--Frank Herbert, Dune
Dreadwail
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I don't really post things on the internet much anymore because my industry and the world at large have both gone mad. I'm just a bit shocked/stunned and don't really know if the world needs me to add my word noise into the LLM-ridden husk that remains of what was formerly the internet.
This is a dark time for software development. Not because AI is going to take programmer's jobs; It's because so many see faces in toast.
Jason GormanMaybe what makes software development so vulnerable to "AI" is that the industry's left the reliability goal wide open. Defect rates few other markets would stand for were already tolerated.
If software had to work in the same way microwave ovens have to work, I suspect nobody would let an LLM near production code.
You may now start throwing the furniture around.
"Software isn't an end in itself, but part of a wider and continuously evolving strategy. The original sin of software development management, from which all the other sins flow, is failing to involve developers in the formulation of that strategy - failing to make them stakeholders in the outcome - and failing to give them a reason to care about quality."
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/the-a-z-of-code-craft-q-is-for-quality/
A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way.
You'll need to be a strong swimmer.
josefi think IDEs which allow you to use "AI" to generate code should always display those specific lines of code in Comic Sans
It won't succeed, but I'm hoping the software developer community won't forget that time that investors and executives tried to replace them with a statistical approximation of their own work that they did for free and that those investors and executives had already benefitted massively from.
Nobody who knows what they're talking about is saying that "AI" is going to replace software developers in the foreseeable future.
In case you were wondering what to make of people who claim that "AI" is going to replace software developers in the foreseeable future.